Window-shade and curtain-pole bracket.



No. 708,505. Patented Sept. 2, I902.

J. P. a T. w. SWEENEY.

WINDOW SHADE AND'GURTAIN POLE BRACKET.

(Application filed Apr. 25, 1902.)

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JAMES P. SWEENEY AND THOMAS W. SW'EENEY, OF TARENTUM, PENN- SYLVANIA, ASSIGNORS OF ONE-THIRD TO WILLIAM N. VYLIE, OF

TARENTUM, PENNSYLVANIA.

WINDOW-SHADE AND CURTAlN-PQLE BRACKET.

v=3PECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 708,505, dated September 2, 1902.

Application filed April 25, 1902. Serial No. 104,682. (No model.)

To ttZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JAMES P. SWEENEY and THOMAS W. SWEENEY, citizens of the United States of America, residing at Tarentum, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Window-Shade and Curtain-Pole Brackets,of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in combination shade and curtain brackets, and has for its object the provision of novel means whereby a fixture may be easily secured to any size of windoW-frame.

Our invention further aims to provide a device of the above-described character th at will 1 parts throughout the several views,in which- Figure 1 is a front view of a window-frame with our improved fixture attached thereto. Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the shade-bracket. Fig. 4 is a similar view of one of the guides to receive the curtain-pole bracket. Fig. 5 is a similarviewofthecurtain-polebracket. Fig. 6 is an enlarged perspective view of a portion of one of the end supports which carry the guide, as shown in Fig. 47.

In the drawings the reference-numeral 1 indicates the window-frame, and 2 2 indicate support-s carrying pins 3 to engage the sides of the window-frame, these supports 2 also carrying guide-plates 4 4, having overturned flanges 5, forming the guideways. These guide-plates 4 are secured together by spiral springs 6 6.

Slidably secured in the guideways formed by the flanges 5 are shade-brackets 7, which are bent at right angles, as shown at 8, having formed in one side a notch 9 and 011 the other corresponding side a round opening to receive the shade-roller.

To the outer sides of the supports 2 are secured guides 10, having an opening 11 formed therein to receive suitable fastening means in order to rigidly secure the said guides to the supports 2. In these guides 10 is secured a novel form of curtain-pole bracket, which is formed of wire, comprising a loop 12, forming the spring-shank, which may be easily secured in the guide 10, the wire forming said loop 12 extending forwardly, as shown at 14, and terminating in a loop 15 to receive the adjustable curtain-holder 16, carrying the coiled end 17, surrounding the portion 14, and carrying on its opposite end the hooked portion 18 to receive the curtain-pole.

The manner of applying our improved device is as follows: The supports 2 are placed in position, and the expansion of the spring 6 will allow the supports to engage windowframes of various widths. The pins will by a slight pressure embed themselves in the window-frame, and the shade-brackets may then be adjusted laterally to receive the shaderoller, and the curtain-holder may also be adjusted inwardly or outwardly, as desired.

It will be seen that by the above arrangement the use of screws or nails is entirely dispensed with, and the fixture of the abovedescribed class may be easily placed in posicombination with the supports provided with pins spaced apart on their inner faces, of horizontal guide-plates secured to the front side of each support, said guide-plates having their inner ends apertured, shade-brackets slidably mounted in said guidep1ates, springs disposed between the adjacent ends of the said guide-plates and having their ends secured in the apertured ends thereof, vertim ca11yarranged guides detachably secured to the sides of the said supports, and curtainbraekets removably secured in said guides, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in the presence of two witnesses.

JAMES P. SWEENEY. THOMAS W. SWEENEY.

Witnesses:

JOHN NOLAND, E. E. POTTER. 

